Crazy Joe Biden

Joe Biden thinks his party is in the mood for finding bipartisan consensus and illustrates his point by waxing nostalgic for the segregationists of yore who were, OK, morally deplorable. But fun guys!

Graham Vyse of TNR leads with the idea that earnest Progressives are in no mood for compromise with Trump. But this quote from Markos M, founder of the Daily Kos, suggests the real problem runs a bit deeper and longer than Trump:

But Moulitsas also had harsh words for the former vice president after his appearance with Jones: “If Biden’s solution to eight years of Republican obstruction and conservative slash-and-burn tactics against him and Barack Obama is to talk about ‘bipartisanship’ and ‘consensus,’ then he might as well pack up and go home. Because if he’s that stupid to believe that shit, then he’s no longer got any business being in the public face. The various wings of the Democratic Party may disagree on a bunch of things, but the one thing that unites us is the realization that the right wants nothing more than a white supremacist autocracy that would rather see liberals dead or in chains. You don’t seek consensus with Nazis. You destroy them.”

The racist white patriarchy has been in their sights for years. Reagan? Racist! Also stupid. Bush 43? Stupid! Also probably racist. Romney? Racist! Also greedy, but probably not Bush-stupid.

And so it goes. Now it's Trump, next time it will be whomever the Republicans cough up next time.

To be fair, there is a certain symmetry since Republicans did not exactly extend the olive branch to Clinton or Obama. But both parties raise more money exhorting their supporters to stand tall and write big checks to oppose the anti-Christ, and here we are. I blame Reagan - the collapse of the USSR as a credible existential threat took away from Washington a sense of seriousness and a belief that on some topics we really did have to find common ground. Not to imagine that the Cold War was an era of Congresscritters singing Kumbaya - Reagan encountered fierce resistance to his anti-Soviet policies, including the Nuclear Freeze movement which included a young Barry Obama. I vaguely recall the Iran-Contra debacle as modestly divisive as well. Or pick 'em - the Bork confirmation hearing was also a Cold War moment.

Lett me also ruminate that the reaction to Biden may pair with the NY Times attack on liberal lion Harvey Weinstein. The wing of the Democratic Party that really can't wait to tear down the white patriarchy won't be backing some tedious white guy (which is to say, any white guy) in 2020. Sure, that means outreach to the white working class may be a bit awkward and tense, but Resist!

Comments

[henry]

Biden should go back to fondling daughters of his associates.

[Captain Hate]

Kos vs Biden? No dog in that fight.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

If you extend an olive branch to a closeted marxist you get your extension bit off.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/business/media/harvey-weinsteins-media-enablers.html

[JimNorCal]

“ ... one thing that unites us is the realization that the right wants nothing more than a white supremacist autocracy that would rather see liberals dead or in chains. You don’t seek consensus with Nazis. You destroy them.”

Do the Russians advertise on MoveOn.org?
Asking for a friend.

And, shouldn’t it be “want nothing *less*”

[DebinGA]

Nothing wins the woman vote better than Biden's insistence on swimming nude at his homes in DC and DE, despite female SS agents saying this makes them uncomfortable.

[Extraneus]

swimming nude at his homes in DC and DE, despite female SS agents

What is it with these flabby old guy exhibitionists? Does he masturbate into flower pots, too?

[Porchlight]

It's quite satisfying to watch the left openly write off and insult the largest voting bloc in the country. Saner Dems than Biden warned them about this long ago, but they didn't listen.

You can only get so many votes out of the Blue Hells, but Trump awoke the sleeping non-voting giants in flyover country.

[Janet 🚬]

If you masturbate into flower pots...you might be a Progressive.

[Thomas Collins]

Where's the Tankees/Flop Sox thread?

[2 minute duda]

"Biden should go back to fondling daughters of his associates"

Or like President Trump just go for the real thing;

"Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your own daughter than you wife?" --Donald Trump

We can go for some of the other Trump Quotes where the President wishes that his infant daughter have the same size tits as her mother. As we all know the men at JOM also wish that their infant daughters grow up to have the same size tities as their moms.

This is why we're better than you. And I think you know it.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 3h3 hours ago

[email protected] is so knowingly inaccurate with their reporting. The good news is that the PEOPLE get it, which is really all that matters! Not #1

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago

Our great team at @FEMA is prepared for #HurricaneNate. Everyone in LA, MS, AL, and FL please listen to your local authorities & be safe!

[Janet 🚬]

the right wants nothing more than a white supremacist autocracy that would rather see liberals dead or in chains. You don’t seek consensus with Nazis. You destroy them.”

The phantom evil white supremacist mobs & uber evil Christians that force their beliefs on everyone, have sure done a LOUSY job with all their supposed power.

[Extraneus]

I like to read about the seduction moves of these disgusting lib oafs. Clinton, Weiner, Weinstein, Teddy the Lion, Spitzer, Menendez and countless others. Not exactly a party of Don Juans. Just a bunch of student government nerds who got powerful enough to get laid.

[narciso]

When the solon, lurch and panetta if memory serves were all for the nuclear freeze, no they were never series same for the most modest action against the sandinistas was denounced by this crew as well countrywide Dodd.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/07/harvey-weinstein-urged-clinton-campaign-to-silence-sanderss-black-lives-matter-message/

Hacked emails! More fun!

[narciso]

Dont get me started on markos 'screw um their merc' mou who saw four Americans fileted predator style over the fallujah bridge.

[Jane (Stand against the Coup)]

This is an excellent article by Larry Kudlow about Kevin Hassett, Trump's new CEA chair and his takedown of the TPC.

I've been on a couple of cruises with Hassett and he has always impressed me as brilliant, and very young (thus proving I am not either).

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452429/kevin-hassett-spanks-tax-policy-center

[narciso]

And that was his invitation into femicratic party circles.

[henry]

NR has joined the Weak Standard as websites made unusable due to an avalanche of ads.

[James D.]

From the last thread:

Speaking of which, has anything been done with that rogue cop in Minnesota who killed the Australian woman or are the denizens just going to pretend nothing happened?

Nothing will happen.

If the police department or the city government were serious about actually protecting the public, they would have fired the cop, and his supervisor, and his training officers, and whoever signed off on hiring him.

If the citizens were serious about actually BEING citizens and not just sheep (or target practice dummies), they'd be voting out city officials until the above was done.

But of course none of that will happen.

[Captain Hate]

henry, my iPad browser gets trashed by so many ads, including some really trashy ones, on sites that I hardly bother clicking links. Kudos to TM for avoiding most of that.

[henry]

CH, I could upgrade beyond iPad 2, but it is such a good filter. ;)

[narciso]

Once a traitor...
http://nysun.com/editorials/kerrys-consolation-prize/90088

He was for Syria, when they provided the ratlines to attack coalition forces

[Janet 🚬]

harvey-weinstein-urged-clinton-campaign-to-silence-sanderss-black-lives-matter-message/

Speaking of the Black Lives Matter movement -

I ran across this the other day & did a FB post.

from Oct. 2016...This is interesting considering the NFL kneelers & what YOU are supposed to put up with.

Here's Michelle Obama's "support" for Black Lives Matter -
"Staffers Worked to Prevent Black Lives Matter From Protesting Michelle Obama Speech" (scroll to #4) - http://freebeacon.com/politics/5-tidbits-clinton-staffers-hacked-emails/

Michelle Obama gets protection from BLM...but YOU are told to listen to them.
Citizens across America - all races - are supposed to put up with blocked roads, interrupted speeches, vandalism, fires, & assault...because, social justice or something.

FTA - "The first lady’s staff circulated a CNN article about Black Lives Matter protesting Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel during the United States Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., in January. Staff members wanted to avoid the spectacle of protestors at Michelle Obama’s speech at the conference the next day.

“I want to make sure you guys have a heads up on this so that we can ensure no protestors make their way into our event. :)” wrote Chynna Clayton, who works in the first lady’s office."

[lyle]

The Rs do "slash and burn" politics? Sure, jack off to that fantasy, kos.

[narciso]

In stead of that slop from adultery of the heart, earlier in the week:
http://weeklystandard.com/cheney-was-right/article/2009857

Which was like involving zombie chamberlain for a confab, twenty years later

[Captain Hate]

Maybe she wants to be just like Sherrod Brown:

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/10/07/kathy-griffins-neighbor-files-for-restraining-order-claims-comedian-spy-on-him.html

[Captain Hate]

The only thing missing from the WS article is how Strobe Talbot in a skirt undid all the Warcock's work.

[narciso]

If you dial down the ambient noise its there.
Once you understand what the regime wants, you realize you cent bargain with it, but its a first order realization, in the 80s, they stalled against the reasonable request that Seoul might need nukes in the future. And it gives in from there.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/facebooks-nightmare-scenario-is-unfolding-in-washington?utm_term=.wfBaVzRzyg#.goVZoOJOza

[Captain Hate]

Zuckerberg vs Schiff is just as bad of a heel matchup as the OP.

[narciso]

Good gravy they are idiots, the only thing this episode proves is what a fool Zuckerberg is, he was saverined.

[Frau Grammatik über alles]

Gotta leave it to the pro: I was going to respond to the KozKid and his view of Rs defeating the Lightbringer's agenda but lyle @12:38 did it better in fewer words.

narciso, I've never forgotten Moulitsas passing himself off as "having boots on the ground in Iraq." He never left the repair garage in Germany.

[henry]

That is delusional Miss M. The author thinks FB will be caught helping Trump conspire with Russia. If anything, FB will be caught helping bot farms defraud advertisers (as Google keeps getting caught doing). Also amusing, the idea that ads on social media do anything: Proctor & Gamble stopped all social media ads with zero impact on sales. That gets out, back to the "how do you plan to monetize all these hits" unicorns never have an answer to.

[Captain Hate]

Welp they also bought into the hot steaming pile that the previous nutjobs only wanted nukes for defensive purposes; ignoring that they could be superseded by a more insane lunatic or they were lying.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/04/mattis-changes-rules-of-engagement-in-afghanistan-unleashes-troops-on-taliban/

[narciso]

Dr evil needs to be refrozen:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Mediaite/status/916501359364661248

Bow his firm mercury was big in the grishenko business

[Captain Hate]

Hard to believe the GOPe won anything except safe seats with that clown calling shots. He'd last about a minute with DJT.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

henry,

Thank you for your perspective. I thought the part where the author thought they would find collusion was wishful thinking, myself.

Regarding internet ads: the only internet advertising I ever saw that was effective was on the Pioneer Woman web site. Her web site was devoted to recipes, gardening, and family stories. She used to run contests featuring small appliances, craft kits, new cleaning items, etc. and when you entered the contest you got a glowing description of the item. You didn't need to click on the contest entry, but if you did, you got an ad and a chance to enter.

I entered a lot of those contests(never won) but it did convince me to go ahead and buy a Kitchenaid tabletop mixer with attachments.

I don't click on YouTube ads and have Adblock Plus for other sites.

I think the advertising industry is going to have to figure out a new method of promoting products.

[Captain Hate]

Btw the Horde is stating the MFM is ignoring a thorough slattering of the JV

[Janet 🚬]

previous nutjobs only wanted nukes for defensive purposes;

a bit of an old Lilek's quote - "Everyone has already accepted the idea of Iranian nukes. I think it’s been factored into our subconscious calculations, where they lie as great red glowing things whose threat is somehow still abstract. They won’t use them. They just want them. The way we all want a big-screen TV, and would keep it in the box once we bought it."

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Captain Hate,

Wictor says the same. I think Raqqua is just about finished.

[Momto2]

Strange story of the day:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kim-wall-latest-updates-peter-madsen-submarine-inventor-swedish-journalist-killed-videos-women-a7982466.html

Will they outlaw homemade submarines?

[DebinGA]

Why would Russia prefer DT to HC?

[henry]

Deb, they neither would, nor did. But Schiff and the #NeverTrumps have nothing else.

[DebinGA]

House Intel Cmmt members demanding clips for their '18 ads.

[Captain Hate]

Miss Marple,

They'll sit on anything that makes Cock Curious look like a miserable failure. Unless by "success" you mean empowering ISIS.

[JimNorCal]

“Why would Russia prefer DT to HC?”

Because he’s competent. And not a lush.

[Ralph L]

I was going to duckduck "Biden nude" but was afraid it might go to images.

[Clarice Feldman]

McCarthy truly jumps the shark IMO:http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452427/trump-dossier-russia-collusion-investigation?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202017-10-07&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/10/07/weinstein-company-board-members-quit-independent-investigation-following-sexual-harassment-claims-harvey-weinstein/

[Ralph L]

Capt'n Hate: Warcock?
Don't slip into narcyptric mode, please?

[narciso]

Cheney, dark overlord, who was rughr about many things. Perhaps occasionally wrong.

The problem with both campaign in south east Asia and the levant, is small unit warfare was more successful, whereas large expeditionary for us were less vulnerable.

[Ralph L]

narcryptic.
If I'm going to make up a word, I'd better spell it right.

[narciso]

Flexible and more vulnerable, the malayan campaign for example was more spec up dependent then heavy ordinance.

[henry]

McCarthy thinks Trump appointees control at DOJ and FBI? I want what he is smoking. We have Comey's dude at Congressional liaison, and Sessions recused from anything campaign or Russia. Wray just got to FBI and has a passel of higher ups to shitcan. Plus Congress is a bunch of useless leakers anyway.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Lisa Bloom‏Verified account @LisaBloom

I have resigned as an advisor to Harvey Weinstein.
My understanding is that Mr. Weinstein and his board are moving toward an agreement.

[henry]

And Mueller just grabbed the dossier. McCarthy still think Mueller has an honorable bone in his body? If so, what proof?

[DebinGA]

Intel Cmmt member Terri Sewell is the only Dem in the 7-member AL delegation. High school valedictorian, graduated with honors from Princeton (BA) and Oxford (MA), then received her JD from Harvard. She also has a lovely family story imo. More like Sewell and less like BOzo please.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Regarding that Lisa Bloom tweet, here's the link to read the replies.

I would say her business model has been totally nuked. Maybe Gloria Alred's, too!

https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/916710877809737728

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://pagesix.com/2017/10/07/lisa-bloom-resigns-as-harvey-weinsteins-advisor/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=P6Twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Book deal stuff.

[Clarice Feldman]

She's written a --you can imagine the take--on Trayvon Martin, weinstein produced as a miniseries. Can't wait to see it. As for Andy why not tell him that Henry. I already unloaded on him in the comments.

[narciso]

Oh yes, potemkin village news all the way.

[Ralph L]

Narciso, that's why we have close air support--where we can't put in tanks or artillery (or in addition to). But then you need a nearby airbase or carrier and the forces to protect them and it adds up.

[glasater]

#BLM is so stupid, they were protesting the ACLU the other day..

[narciso]

Well as was oblique pointed out the dream defenders were out of the new highlander school,
Which is in keeping with their pattern of influence going back to king and parks. Ironically without a plurality of credulous white liberals, they wouldn't have gone anywhere.

[Ralph L]

My problem with WS and NR and the Spectator isn't the ads but the websites' banners. I need to zoom up the text so my eyes don't get sore, leaving a small readable window.

[Captain Hate]

Am I the only one feeling a bit, sorry isn't the right word for a lowlife like him but something like it, for the pile up on Weinstein? There are so many other worthy targets for exactly the same types of actions that it's almost like he was chosen as a sacrificial lamb for the benefit of the other creeps. IOW I am infinitely skeptical about the underlying goal of the MFM in pursuing this. If they expand their scope of outrage to include some of the people Janet has mentioned, particularly the ones that prey on underaged boys, I'll back off my skepticism. Or Slick. But I don't expect that to happen.

[Clarice Feldman]

CH--we have to wait, I guess, until the perps are older and someone wants to remove them.

[Ralph L]

It's certainly a shark feeding frenzy, but I'm still no chum of Harvey's.

[DebinGA]

Video of BLM's "Liberalism is white supremacy" shut-down of female ACLU speaker there to discuss free speech. The audience is almost nil, and BLM peeps are almost all white, which is very odd.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4957558/Hollywood-quiet-Ashley-Judd-Harvey-Weinstein-claims.html

Actual headline:

"Three board members of Harvey Weinstein's company QUIT ahead of internal inquiry over sexual harassment scandal while stars like Meryl and Nicole stay silent and offer no support to accuser Ashley Judd"

[Captain Hate]

The Horde has been reporting some young boy diddling by Spielberg as if it's something well known amongst the cognoscenti, of which I'm obviously not one. Whether or not that's true, his recent work including burnishing the image of the JEF indicates his moral compass isn't pointing north.

[-peter]

slowly recovering from the crushing defeat of the Yankees last night....

[henry]

I can't comment on McCarthy 's delusions at NR. I have neither a NR subscription nor FB account. I like your comment there, Clarice.

[Clarice Feldman]

Thnx, henry. I'm so sick of his papering over these rats.

[narciso]

Yes its like shooting at womprats, the effluvient that miramax turned out with rare examples is mire probative.

[henry]

A second read make me think McCarthy wrote that to justify Mueller's no knock / guns drawn raid of a cooperating witness. How dirty is McCarthy that this stuff is ok with him?

[Davod]

Narciso:

"Flexible and more vulnerable, the malayan campaign for example was more spec up dependent then heavy ordinance."

This was the history for a long time. More recently (I cannot find a link) there is a view that the heavy lifting was done by the regular army prior to the introduction of the small SAS, and paratroop, teams.

The regulars brought in villagers and resettled them outside the influence of the communists. The communists had nowhere to go for local support and then the teams were sent in to hunt the hard core communists.

The Brits did use Lincoln heavy bombers and 5.5 inch and 25 pounder artillery.

[Comanche Voter]

The problem with Joe is that he is just not that bright. He walks into a crowded room, he lowers the room's average IQ by 5 points.

[The Gipper Lives]

Screw Biden. He was supposed to be the wise old head who would keep Zero from going full Commie Perv/Terror Symp. Instead, he even pulled Comrade O further left. Now he's Mr. Reasonable again?

Put a Speedo on it, Joe.

[narciso]

That's why I dubbed him the solon of scranton, but his category error was shared among the commentariat.

[Captain Hate]

henry, good luck getting McCarthy to come down hard on any action by the Feds. The only time I can remember that happening was when he agreed with Levin that DJT had been under surveillance.

[Davod]

Narciso. PS. The Brits were always good at hiding troop numbers. I cannot find the numbers for the Malayan Emergency. However. I read some time ago that at the height of the Indonesian confrontation the Brits had 180,000 troops in theater. Wasn't National Service wonderful.

[Account Deleted]

Not going against McCarthy as rat-paperer here. I do have a question---

What to make of his allegation at the end of the article re unmasking, that if POTUS wants to reveal what happened and to whom he could because he is head of the executive branch--- but he hasn't.

What to make of that?

[Clarice Feldman]

How long can one ride on the trial of the Blink Sheik which when closely examined was not such a striking accomplishment--after all the real perp got away and fled the country while the moog captured their attention trying to get back his desposit on the rental truck.
Charge anyone in a gazillion count indictment and a dumb jury will always find guilt somewhere in that haystack .

[Thomas Collins]

At least, Peter, you can argue that when the Tankees go home, the series turned on a botched non-challenge to a hit by pitch call. As for the Flop Sox, the turning point was pre-game one batting practice.

[narciso]

You mean yousef or Ali Mohammed, who Mccarthy failed to detain

https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/malayan-emergency

[henry]

CH, I didn't expect Yale to come back from 2 nil vs Dartmouth in the final minute either. ( no doubt the world will be back on its axis by then end of OT).

[Clarice Feldman]

*BlinD* sheik

[Clarice Feldman]

Ramzi Yousef, narciso.

[JimNorCal]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/shock-poll-nfl-now-least-liked-sport-core-fans-down-31/article/2636837
Over just one month of player, coach, and owner protests of the flag and National Anthem, the National Football League has gone from America's sport to the least liked of top professional and college sports, according to a new poll.

From the end of August to the end of September, the favorable ratings for the NFL have dropped from 57 percent to 44 percent, and it has the highest unfavorable rating – 40 percent – of any big sport,

[Captain Hate]

What to make of that?

Cock Curious is guilty guilty guilty but is keeping his big yap shut as he has on every sketchy incident of his life.

[narciso]

Hecknof a job, roger, take a bow. Btw did the producers of be 2049. Forget it was initially a bomb?

[Forbes]

Clinton-Gingrich Welfare Reform is a pretty good example of bipartisanship back in the day. As I recall, 3 Clinton admin officials resigned in protest because children would be starving in the streets, as a result of reform--said resignations long since been memory-holed.

[Dave (in MA)]

Gerry Callahan‏Verified account @GerryCallahan Gerry Callahan Retweeted Daily Mail U.K. I think it's time for common sense Prius control.

Daily Mail U.K.Verified account @DailyMailUK

Replying to @DailyMailUK
A man who was driving the black Toyota Prius is pictured pinned to the ground after the incident http://dailym.ai/2xp8Dc1

[narciso]

Yes it took threeattempts to get that done, Robert pear wrote one of thesecchristma carol allegories that prompted the razorback birgia to veto.

[Captain Hate]

Didn't Slick veto welfare reform multiple times before he finally signed it? Back when we had a GOP Congress that would do more than close up shop when faced with a setback?

You said exactly what I was thinking about pudgy Rog, narc.